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10 Cards in this Set
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Consumer |
Organisms that feed on other organisms |
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Omnivore |
Consumers that eat both producers (plants) and consumers (animals) |
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Detritivore |
Scavenge waste products or dead bodies |
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Decomposer |
Break down leaf litter and other nonlivong material into simpler chemicals that can be used by plants |
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Food Web |
A visual map of feeding relationships and energy flow |
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Food Chain |
A linear series of feeding relationships |
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Keystones Species |
A species that has a strong or wide reaching impact far out of proportion to its abundance |
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Trophic Cascade |
A phenomenon in which predators at high trophic levels indirectly affect populations at low trophic levels. |
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Disturbance |
Event that causes rapid changes in the environment that alters the community or ecosystem |
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Resistance |
When a community of organisms resists change and remains stable despite the disturbance |
